BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 8 - Youthful Beginnings (320kbps .mp3)

BBC Proms, 2018, Prom 8 - Youthful Beginnings (320kbps .mp3)

Live at BBC Proms: BBC NOW with Principal Conductor Thomas Søndergård in Schumann's Symphony No 4, plus the pianist Bertrand Chamayou performs Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1.

In his final season as the BBC National Orchestra of Wales's Principal Conductor, Thomas Søndergård explore the music of two 20th-century female composers whose early deaths cut their careers tragically short: Prix de Rome winner Lili Boulanger and Wales's Morfydd Owen, whose Nocturne showcases a sensuous and utterly original musical voice. Bertrand Chamayou makes his Proms debut in Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto - composed when Mendelssohn was just 22 - while Schumann's jubilant Fourth Symphony is also the work of a composer exploring new musical maturity.

01. Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps; D'un soir triste
01i. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 8 - general introduction
02. Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto No 1 in G minor
02i. Introduction to Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No 1
03. Mendelssohn - Auf Flügeln des Gesanges (encore)
04. Morfydd Owen - Nocturne
05. Schumann - Symphony No 4 in D minor
05i. Introduction to Schumann’s Symphony No 4

Bertrand Chamayou (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Thomas Søndergård (conductor)

06. BBC Proms 2018, Prom 8, Interval, Proms Plus
Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gregynog Festival, and the music critic and journalist Steph Power, discuss the life and music of Morfydd Owen. Presented by Petroc Trelawny.


Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Penny Gore
Broadcast: 20 July 2018